Author(s): Helen Overton

NZ History

  Demonising a Good Doctor details every aspect of an inquiry that should go down as one of the worst travesties in New Zealand’s legal and medical history. Screening is more complex than many people realise. Public controversy over screening issues broke out in the 1980s in New Zealand leading to a judicial inquiry. But did that inquiry understand these issues? Or did the real agendas behind the inquiry lead to an injustice?